Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-06-17
COMMUNICATIONS.
Kansas and Arkansas.


LYNDON, KAN MAY 80, 1851.
Fps CITIZEN: Since my last writ.
ing | have been rushing around.
Leaving Prairie Grove, 1 went OF g
Journey over the Boston Mountains.
After travelling ten miles south We
came to what is called the Yellow
Rocks, a cliff with face over one
hundred feet high, as straight and
smooth as il cut with n chisel.
At the base is an opening where p
large number of people can stand
and where the different kinds cf rock
can be seen; all yellow as gold and
hanging in rocks, or clusters, as il
were, and as easy cut as crayon. |
broke a few pieces from cluster,
which | shall take with me when |
return to Pa. A this opening is &
spring where deer come to drink, and
where tracks were sufficient to tell US
that they were not far away.
The next curiosity is the Anger
Rocks, an opening in the bluff well
deserving the name, in which are
rocks exactly the shape of augers,
from thirty to forty feet in height
Here we left our ponies and tray
eled fourteen miles east, seeing more
sights than | have time to explain
At the end of this journey, we
| came to the northern limit OF the cot
ton belt, and tho noted rocks called
Curiosity Bluff. In this Bluff there
is an opening called the Hotel, where
there are chairs, stands, and almost
all kinds OF stone furniture
After finishing cur fishing and
hunting expedition we returned to
Prairie Grove, where the reaper can
be heard and the harvest is at hand.
On the both day of May | attend
ed the decorating of the soldiers
graves at Fayetteville, where l had
the pleasure of listening 10 Col,
Parker, Judge of the U. S. Court Of
Ft. Smith, Ark who has sentenced
more men to be hung than any Judge
in the United States. | was told by
old citizens of Fayetteville that the
crowd was the largest ever known 70
be in the town since the war, and
the battle of Prairie Grove, 1862.
At 5 o'clock P. NJ, took the train
for Pierce City, No. from there to
Ft Scott, Kan, from Ft. Scott to
Kansas City.
After spending o short time on the
Wire Gable street cars viewing the
city, | took my departure fer the
Sunllower State, or the State OF
wealth, health aud happiness; where
the poor are made rich, and where
farmers do not raise little FIVE acre
fields of corn, but were we see from
40 to 200 acres in one field. At the
present time Usage county, Kan, is
having very little rain, but dry
weather cannot check the crops in the
garden spot of America. Yesterday
| was in the south western part OF
the county, to-day, June 3, | went to
the southeastern corner, and | find
it all very near the same.
The prairies are covered with all
kinds of flowers, and the cattle are
feeding by the hundreds.
To those coming west l would say
give the Sundower (Kansas) State &
a trial. Topeka is increasing at the
rate of 1000 month. Lyndon will
have the Kansas City r. r. through
her town in short time.
Reader, I will close for the present
by stating that the wind in Kansas
will not hold hat to the side Of Il
building all day. Such an assertion
is incorrect l expect to visit the
greatest pork market in the U. S.
before returning to Pa.
Thanking you fer your kindness,
| remain Z. l.. ENGLISH.